A Line in the Sand: Canadians at War in Kandahar by Ray Wiss

In 2007-08, Dr. Ray Wiss, a former infantry officer, served with the Canadian Forces at ahead working bases in Khandahar's Panjwayi valley, the world experiencing the main extreme strive against in Afghanistan. He spent extra time within the wrestle zone than the other Canadian health practitioner, and his profitable first publication, FOB Doc, was once the diary of his time outside the wire” in the course of that journey of duty.

Captain Wiss' event in Afghanistan confident him that this clash used to be an extraordinary instance of an ethical battle. whilst requested to come back for a good longer travel of accountability within the wrestle quarter, he conveniently agreed. once more, he stored a diary, writing with ardour in regards to the efforts, sacrifices and achievements of these Canadians who served with such contrast. Illustrated with over a hundred color photos, A Line within the Sand tells us approximately almost all kinds of soldier scuffling with in Afghanistan: the bomb technician, the engineer, the wrestle medic, the grunt” in addition to concerning the Afghans, from whom we're possible so assorted but with whom we percentage lots. it really is an impassioned insider’s view of the struggle in Afghanistan and a powerful testomony to why it matters.

A terrorist assault. A killer at the free. And a last, determined project . . .

Former SAS Captain, Tom Jackson, is a guy with not anything to lose. A veteran of the main risky missions the Regiment may possibly throw at him, his lifestyles was once torn aside the day a terrorist assault killed his relatives. Now he grieves in obscurity, the area of battle not anything yet a far off memory.

However, humans greater up the chain of command produce other plans for Jackson. they're in a large number in their personal making, and make him a suggestion he can’t refuse — a proposal that would take him again into the brutal theatre of conflict. There’s a catastrophe ready to ensue, which just one individual may also help hinder, and that individual is being held via the Taliban insurgency within the depths of a harsh Afghanistan wintry weather.

As Tom reluctantly prepares for this ultimate challenge, he does so within the wisdom that it'll cease a devastating terrorist assault — in addition to fulfill an ulterior cause of his personal. yet as occasions start to spread, Tom suspects that somebody is enjoying a video game with him; that no-one could be depended on; and that during the murky global of overseas terrorism, issues are seldom what they appear . . .

Naomi Novik’s liked sequence returns, with Captain Will Laurence and his struggling with dragon Temeraire once more taking to the air opposed to the broadsides of Napoleon’s forces and the friendly—and occasionally not-so-friendly—fire of British infantrymen and politicians who proceed to suspect them of divided loyalties, if now not outright treason.

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The previous Norse and Icelandic poets have left us vibrant bills of clash and peace-making within the Viking Age. Russell G. Poole's editorial and important research unearths a lot concerning the texts themselves, the occasions that they describe, and the tradition from which they arrive. Poole makes an attempt to place correct many misunderstandings in regards to the integrity of the texts and their narrative ideas.